Improvement in toy whistles



Toy Whistles.

CHA SKEL.

Patented July 21,1874.

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UNITED STATES PATEMEIQ JAMES GHASKEL, 9F NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN TOY WHISTLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 153,155., dated July 21, 1874; application filed June 25, 181 1.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES CHASKEL, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Whistling-Toy; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanylng drawing, making part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 shows a hollow rubber ball, B, which is compressible, and made with 'an opening, b, through it at its bottom, so that by stretching it may be drawn over the upper end of the handle of the toy, and attached thereto by allowing the rubber to seat itself in the circular groove 6, as shown in Fig. 3. Fig. 2 shows the handle A of the toy, its body being made of a single piece of wood, or other suitable material, hollow throughout from end to end. At 0 and d the handle is cut through, as shown, so as to connect with the tubular passage f, which extends from end to end of the handle. Plugs g g are inserted in both ends of the handle, with a portion of the plugs cut away, as shown, so as to form whistles c and d at the upper and lower ends of the handle. The handle may thus .be used by a child for a whistle, as at d; or, by compressing the figure B, the toy at 0 can be made to whistle, while at the same time the handle A serves as a support for the figure B.

I am aware that whistling toys made of rubber are not new, and that rubber balls or other hollow figures made of rubber have had metallic whistles inserted in the body of the rubber figure, so that on compression of the figure a whistling sound would be produced. These metallic whistles, however, children are liable to pull out or detach from the rubber ball or figure, and so lose them, and'thus destroy the whistling attraction of the toy; and, besides this, such metal whistles when inserted in the body of the rubber figure, detract from the uniqueness and general beauty of the figure. These objections are obviated in my toy by making the whistles in the handle, as shown, one whistle being at either end of the handle A, neither of which can readily be betached and lost.

It will thus be seen that either whistle c or (I may be used at difi'erent times to produce the whistling sounds, or that they may be both used simultaneously. In other words, the lower end of the handle may be inserted in the mouth, and the whistle cl blown, while at the same time the whistle 0 may be blown by compressing the figure B, and thus produce variant whistling sounds.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A whistling toy the handle of which is provided with the whistles c and d, in combination with a hollow compressible ball or figure, substantially as described.

JAMES OHASKEL.

Witnesses:

J. N. CAMPBELL, LOUIS MoRELL. 

